Methodology Education in Spain

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Methodology Education in Spain

• José Muñiz
• University of Oviedo

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Spain
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Spain

• 45 Million inhabitants
• 4 official languages
• 200 teachers of Methodology
• National personality Quixotic
• Excellent food
• Sunny weather (in the south)
• Luxurious beaches
• 65 Million tourists each year

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Methodology in Spain

• 33 Universities offer Bachelor and Phd. Programs
  In Psychology
• Around 200 teachers of Methodology
• Professors, Associate Prof., TA
• Spanish Association of Methodology
• aemcco

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Compulsory subjects in all Spanish Faculties of
Psychology

• Statistics
• Descriptive
• Inferential
• Probability
• Design
• Experimental
• Non experimental
• Psychometrics
• Classical Test Theory
• IRT

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Optional subjects (most common)

• Advanced statistics
• Multivariate statistics
• Simulation methodology
• Advanced Designs
• Repeated measures
• MANOVA
• Advanced Psychometrics
• DIF
• CAT

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Spanish Journals of Methodology

• Metodologia de las Ciencias del Comportamiento
• Currently sacrified to create the EAM Journal
  Methodology
• Psicologica
• Methodology and Experimental Psychology
• Psicothema
• Section devoted to methodology
• More than 50 Spanish Journals of psychology
  ocasionally include Methodology papers

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General Impressions about Spanish Methodology

• Strenghts
• Well stablished academically
• Proactive and well organized aemcco
• Productive and Competitive
• Need to improve
• International participation and visibility
• Doctorate Programs in methodology